
Trump adviser suggests reopening economy by putting 'everybody in a space outfit', The Week
"One of President Trump's economic advisers has an admittedly "crazy" idea for how to reopen the country amid the coronavirus pandemic: space outfits. "I was thinking this morning, and this is just kind of a thought experiment because I was thinking about this -- why don't we just put everybody in a space outfit or something like that?" Moore asked. "No. Seriously." The Times noted to Miller that "well, we'd have to make the space outfits," a fact he acknowledged while continuing to spitball. "I mean, just thinking out loud, and maybe this is a crazy idea, but instead of just locking down the economy, putting everybody in a kind of -- you're right," Moore said. "You have to make 200 million of these, but it wouldn't have cost $3 trillion to do that. ... I mean, I was looking online, and there are all these kinds of suits that they're building now that you're not exposed and you're breath -- kind of ventilator."